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From: Urban Lindqvist

To: phoNet@egroups.com

Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 8:34 AM

Subject: [phoNet] Trivia

Two important persons that have been mentioned here a few times are Labov
and Ladefoged. But how do they pronounce their names?

Urban

 

Labov (American) [l@'bAv]

Ladefoged (British, though UCLA-based) ['ladI,f@UgId]

 

IPA:

US [lə'bαv], UK [lə'bɒv]

UK ['lædɪˌfəʊgɪd], US ['læɾəˌfoʊgəd]

 

BTW, there is a famous British dialectologist and phonetician called Peter Trudgill ['tɹʌdgɪl]. I've met native speakers of English who didn't know how to pronounce his surname (a dialectal version of "treadle").

 

Piotr